@ari

ROFLMAO!!!

#AI took my job. Seriously.

I was a #comtractor at #Microsoft.

I didn't #code; I worked as #support staff for one of the programs with their #Philanthropy arm. Our program was #education-focused, and was very successful.

But AI is *expensive*. And even before we were shut down, we were required to incorporate AI in our work and promote it to the schools we worked with.

Just about the last thing that #Caltech genuinely cares about, to sum this up, is #education. The attitude of the U.S. ruling class and its corporate bosses is that only a few people need specialized education, and that education ought to get more and more specialized over time—the better to make it unavailable to most persons, and to keep schooling limited to a thin stratum of favored pupils.

That's how we get "Ph.D. #physics" from people like Shaun Maguire, who has zero visible interest in physics and probably couldn't answer a single difficult question on the topic. It's not his business. His world is one of money and power and sucking up to political sponsors, and he's got computers to do his thinking for him. Everyone round him is the same.

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I suspect that's partly why, today, British letters seem to be represented by #JKRowling, who presents the British schooling tradition as dotty and whimsical. #HarryPotter has propaganda value for the vestiges of the British Empire.

American colleges and universities and boarding schools all still fawn over the British model. It's so snobbish, so good at separating people out into a hundred different grades and divisions and subdivisions—an artifact of the origins of British #education in the need to supply the vast ranks of British imperial bureaucracy.

Now it's corporate bureaucracy and government offices which are peopled by the elite graduates of U.S. schools.

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